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This short video explores how a baby’s microbiome is established during birth.

This video describes how scientists silence different genes in regenerating planaria to study the process of regeneration at the molecular level.

This video showcases the work of mathematician-turned-biologist Corina Tarnita, who uses quantitative approaches to understand the role of termite mounds in the savanna ecosystem.

This animation shows how a region of the brain called the cerebral cortex develops in a human fetus.

This film tells the story of the scientists and the evidence involved in one of the most important scientific quests of the 20th century: the discovery of the structure of DNA.

This film explores how gene duplications and mutations have led to remarkable physiological adaptations in Antarctic fish.

This animation tracks how the human brain develops over nine months of gestation.

This animation shows how varying concentrations of a signaling molecule activate different transcription factors to determine cell fate.

This animation gives an overview of how a fertilized human egg develops into an embryo.

This animation describes the formation and fates of the three germ layers in a human embryo.

This animation shows how zebrafish can rapidly heal wounds to the heart.

This animation shows how somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) creates an embryo from an egg cell and a body cell.